I agree, but that doesn't mean that the point shouldn't be raised.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mirek
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I agree, but that doesn't mean that the point shouldn't be raised.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mirek
my objection was how the guardrails are positioned....i think having their end so high and not going to the ground as most guardrails creates unecessary danger.
Nice to hear that Kubica woke up and can communicate.
Safety issues are the most important issues to discuss in this forum and in the rallying community. I have been probably one of the most active participants in this and other forums about the safety issues with Iskald, Pentti and other experts that I have so much respect for.
But.
Rallying is sport that is participated in natural environment, you have to drive between trees, cliffs and rails. Risk of death is present all the time. And that is part of the excitement, a big part.
I have injured myself in rally accident in 2005. My neck won't be the same never again. Luckily my injuries were not life threathening or too serious, but they will harm my life the rest of my life. But I am very much aware of that they could have been.
And I am still participating in taking those huge risks needed.
Because that is my passion.
It is the same with everyone driving in rally. Robert drove purely just because of his passion for the rallying. And it is the same with the thousands of rallydrivers in the world. You'll risk everything...
That's true but what can You do with that when they are everywhere? It's like with trees around stages here in CZ or in Finland. They are on every stage. Theoretically You can remove them but practically You can't. In reality You have two options - to make stages that way You avoid the most risky places while You know there are still many other on stages or not to make any stages at all.Quote:
Originally Posted by N.O.T
shocking photo just to understant how lucky Robert was
http://www.lancerregister.com/showth...=359586&page=3
http://forums.autosport.com/index.ph...142119&st=1560
Bad quality of this cars..
the thing is you cannot remove trees/cliffs/natural dangers ects but you can make guardrails end to the ground, why add more dangers to the current existing ones ??Quote:
Originally Posted by Mirek
One thing I do not understand: people say he hit a gap in the armco. But if you see at the onboard videos, the armco before the accident is completely bent backwards over the edge. To me it looks like the armco was a single piece, but that the violent impact ripped it apart. It doesn't make any sense to have a gap in the armco at that point.
Ehm, have You realized that those guardrails are already there? We can say thousand times that they are wrong and we are right but it doesn't change anything on fact that they are there. So in results, it's same like trees...Quote:
Originally Posted by N.O.T
With most stages ran twice, the WRC/IRC rounds use about 150-200kms of road per rally. What's more, most of the stages are in the rally year after year.
Think that from now on FIA will carefully check for traps of this kind on these major events as no normal racing car can keep the sharp guardrail end from penetrating, when the car is perfectly aligned against it (and even held in position by the previous guardrail like here).
Trees aren't nearly as deadly as this with the impact being absorbed by much larger area...neither are they man-made.